Demi Lovato's Mother Comments on Singer's Sobriety

The singer’s mom, Dianna De La Garza, recently shared that her daughter has now been sober for 90 days, and has lots of support in her life. During an interview on Maria Menounos’s Sirius XM show on Friday, October 26, De La Garza shared that Demi “has 90 days” of sobriety since she was hospitalized for an overdose in July 2018. “I couldn’t be more thankful or more proud of her because addiction being a disease, it’s work,” De La Garza said.

Demi’s fans and friends experienced quite a shock when the terrifying news spread quickly online earlier this summer, and many were worried the overdose might be fatal. De La Garza, who doesn’t live with Demi, revealed she was just as caught off guard. The day that her daughter was hospitalized, she said her phone was flooded, and she had no idea what was going on.

“I was looking at my phone and I saw all these text messages coming in from all over. One text message that clued me in on what was going on said, ‘I just saw on TMZ and I’m so sorry,’” she told Maria Menounos. She added: “I was terrified to look at my phone,” because she thought that maybe Demi had died in a car accident.

Now that Demi has reached this point in her journey, her mother is proud and trying to stay as supportive as possible, just like all of Demi’s friends and loved ones, because she knows that staying sober is not simple. “It’s...not easy and there are no shortcuts,” De La Garza said. When asked if she knew what led to Demi’s overdose earlier this year or what the circumstances were, she explained that she “can’t really say for sure.”

From all of the recent interviews with her family members, it’s clear that Demi’s family is massively supportive, and they don’t need the full story to cheer her on during her recovery process. Just recently, Demi’s little sister Madison said she’s doing really well, “working really hard on her sobriety and we’re all so incredibly proud of her.”